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Joseph Watson Fyfe fonds : [1897-1906]
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CA PCA Acc4742
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Photocopied 2001 (Creation)
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- Fyfe, Joseph Watson
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.015 m of textual records
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Fyfe, Joseph Watson
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Joesph Watson Fyfe was born on the 17 July 1869 to John Fyfe (1835-1881) and Mary Ann Smith (1832-1912) of Stanley Bridge, Prince Edward Island. Watson worked in New Brunswick in 1897, shipping wood in the winter months. Lured by the hope of prosperity, he joined the Klondyke gold rush and travelled to the Yukon in 1898 where he remained until 1906. Returning to the Maritimes, he married Minnie Alice Weir of Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, in Amherst, NS, in October of 1908 and began a life at sea. Joseph Watson drowned in a storm off Peggy's Cove, NS on the 7 October 1938, with his son Aubrey (1915-1938) while Captain of the "Clarissa P," a two-mastered schooner, which had sailed out of Sydney with a load of coal when it was overtaken by the storm.
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The fonds consists of letters written by Joseph Watson to his mother Annie Fyfe and brother Alfred Fyfe in Stanley Bridge, PEI, from 1897 to 1906. The correspondence begins in New Brunswick, and is followed by letters from New York in January of 1898, Fort McMurray in May, and his journey up the MacKenzie River in recounted in letters from June and July of that same year. Correspondence from Fyfe in July of 1899, has him working in the mines at Hunker Creek and in November of that year, with the Northern Transportation Company in Eldorado Creek where he would remain until 1901. There is a gap in Joseph's correspondence to his family from 1901 to 1906, but letters written in May of 1906, indicate that he was still in the Yukon at that time.
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